EUROPA
CALL
SMART 2011-0036 Quantifying public procurement of research and development of ICT solutions in Europe. This study aims to gather data about the amount of public procurements of research and development that are taking place in the Member States and that are not tendered EU wide. The purpose is to quantify the data in such a way that also allows the identification of R&D procurement expenditure across areas of public sector activity, and across categories of expenditure, in particular for this study focusing on ICT related goods and services procured. Deadline: 16 September 2011 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=7157&utm_campaign=isp&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=newsroom&utm_content=type-news
SMART 2011/0035 Simulation, visualisation and visual computing technologies: EU position and future potential. The aim of the study is to inform decisions on future coverage and approach towards the fields of simulation, visualisation and visual computing within a future post 2013 EU Research and Innovation Programme. The study should analyse and assess the position of the EU research community and of EU industry in these areas. It should benchmark these activities against the main international competitors. It should also analyse the research and market potential in various application areas and identify the potential key players that should be involved in the definition of future R&D priorities and in subsequent research and development activities in the area. The data gathered and lessons learnt through this study will be fed into the Common Strategic Framework and Work Programme preparation process. Deadline: 9 September 2011 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=7133&utm_campaign=isp&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=newsroom&utm_content=type-news
Call for proposals — EACEA/16/11 — Under the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) — Promoting the integration of Roma in and through education (2011/C 193/08) Budget EUR 584 000 Deadline 16 September 2011 http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/funding/2011/call_roma_2011_en.php
LAZIOSIDE
NEWS
Spazi urbani: apre a Roma Porta Futuro, il nuovo spazio per i giovani e il lavoro. Si chiama “Porta Futuro” e aiuterà i giovani a trovare lavoro più velocemente, indirizzandoli attraverso le attività più adatte in base ai propri talenti, competenze e interessi. La presentazione di Porta Futuro si svolge oggi, martedì 5 luglio, a partire dalle 11.30 a Testaccio (piazza Orazio Giustinani). http://lazio-side.it/attualita/news/spazi-urbani-apre-roma-porta-futuro-il-nuovo-spazio-per-giovani-il-lavoro.html
FINANZIAMENTI Lazio: agevolazioni per l’IT nei servizi alberghieri. Disponibili contributi per le aziende del settore turistico che volessero innovare – (Scadenza 6 settembre 2011). La Regione Lazio eroga contributi finalizzati al miglioramento degli standard dei servizi tecnologici offerti al turista. http://lazio-side.it/attualita/news/finanziamenti-lazio-agevolazioni-per-lit-nei-servizi-alberghieri.html
SVILUPPO LAZIO
NEWS
Approvata legge Small Business Act. “Lo avevamo annunciato all’indomani del nostro insediamento e abbiamo mantenuto la promessa: la Regione Lazio ha recepito lo Small business act (Sba) europeo, dando così via libera alla semplificazione normativa a favore delle micro, piccole e medie imprese. È una novità assoluta, una positiva rivoluzione all’insegna della sburocratizzazione, da cui giungeranno vantaggi concreti per il nostro tessuto economico che, lo ricordo, produce circa il dieci per cento della ricchezza nazionale”. http://www.sviluppo.lazio.it/news.asp?id=4235
MONDOGIS
BANDO
Galleria di Base del Brennero (Austria). Galleria di Base del Brennero – Brenner Basistunnel BBT SE (Austria) – Monitoraggio geodetico in continuo di fenomeni di subsidenza lungo la Val di Mules, mediante rete fissa di ricevitori GPS e di una stazione totale per misurazioni automatiche. Importo complessivo € 492.350. Scadenza 25 agosto 2011.
Autorità di Bacino Regionale Destra Sele (NA). Servizio relativo alla realizzazione di un portale informativo territoriale di monitoraggio integrato dell’autorità. Importo complessivo € 1.790.970. Scadenza 8 agosto 2011.
FILAS
NEWS
Nuovi fondi alle Pmi Ue: si parte con 30 miliardi. Tajani: «Puntiamo su innovazione e ricerca applicata». Più risorse per le Pmi europee dal 2014 al 2020. Con il raddoppio dei fondi per la competitività e una nuova grande “scatola” per la ricerca e l’innovazione la dote iniziale potrebbe raggiungere i 30 miliardi di euro.Viste dalle piccole e medie imprese si presentano così le Prospettive finanziarie dell’Unione europea che la Commissione Ue ha presentato lo scorso 29 giugno. A conti fatti il forziere per le Pmi sarà ancora più pesante perché il vicepresidente della Commissione Ue con delega all’Industria, Antonio Tajani, è riuscito a ottenere una corsia preferenziale per i “piccoli” per tutti i finanziamenti. http://www.filas.it/News.aspx?IDNews=517
CORDIS
EVENTI
31 August to 2 September 2011 Pafos, Cyprus. Workshop on ‘resource discovery mechanisms for peer-to-peer systems’. Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has emerged as a popular trend in distributed computing during the last few years. P2P enables the large-scale aggregation of resources which are geographically-distributed and belong to unrelated administrative domains. This style of computing is characterised by the presence of an equivalent set of nodes, peers, ability to self-organise and the sharing of a set of distributed resources within a network. http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.document&EV_RCN=33586
NEWS
Final report of the Synergies Expert Group. The final report of the Synergies Expert Group was published. Since October 2010, the Synergies Expert Group focused on synergies between the 7th Framework Programme (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the structural funds (SF). The group has been analysing how EU research policy should be aligned across the main European research policy framework programmes and actions. In their report, the group found that innovation policies at EU level are currently fragmented and that coordination is suboptimal. The group also recommends that the SF should be better exploited for innovative public procurement to support the ‘smart growth’ objective. http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.document&N_LANG=EN&N_RCN=33588&pid=0
CZELO
CALL
EMRP programme Call – The European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) has published a call for Researcher Excellence Grants (REG) and Joint Research Projects (JRPs) in the areas “Metrology for Health”, “SI Broader Scope” and “Metrology for New Technologies”. The deadline is on 3 October 2011. http://www.emrponline.eu/call2011/stage2.html
NEWS
Key Enabling Technologies – the future of European industry. An expert group on Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) set up by the Commission published its final report with 11 policy recommendations for the development and deployment of KETs on 28 June 2011. The main conclusions call on decision-makers to adopt radical policy objectives to retain critical capability and capacity in Europe through a single and comprehensive approach to KETs. In particular, the group recommends that the vital importance of KETs should be reflected in the structure and funding balance in the upcoming framework for research and innovation and in the priorities of the EU’s future regional policy. The Commission reaction will be published in a communication at the beginning of 2012. http://www.czelo.cz/detail/?news=2653
GMES
NEWS
The New Competition for Innovative Earth Monitoring Services. On 1 July 2011 started of a new innovation competition – the GMES Masters. The European Earth Monitoring Competition calls for new ideas and services making the best use of earth observation data from Europe’s flagship programme on global monitoring for environment and security. With the aim of making the best use of possibilities that come along with global monitoring in the domains of environment and security, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and T-Systems have launched a new competition – the GMES Masters. http://www.gmes.info/pages-secondaires/news/news-detail/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=545&tx_ttnews[backPid]=9&cHash=ae3a9fd334c7b331235bb2d4df7b7846
MIUR
NEWS
Bando Firb – Futuro in ricerca. Ammissione alle audizioni http://attiministeriali.miur.it/anno-2011/luglio/dd-04072011.aspx
CATCHALL
NEWS
ECONOMIA: INSEDIATO COMITATO PER RIFORMA CREDITO AGEVOLATO A PMI. Palermo – Si e’ insediato oggi, nei locali dell’Assessorato dell’Economia, il Comitato per la riforma del credito agevolato per le piccole e medie imprese siciliane, nato con l’obiettivo di predisporre, entro l’autunno, la base per il riordino legislativo di un settore vitale per l’economia siciliana, in una fase assai complessa della congiuntura economica. http://www.confidiamoci.it/a_1106